rescheduling

July 17, 2026 in Culture

Prohibitionists Packed the DEA Hearing to Keep Marijuana in Schedule I. Their Own Witnesses Made the Case for Schedule III.

Every nongovernment participant selected for the DEA’s rescheduling hearing opposed reform. By the time the record closed, one marquee witness had undercut a central part of his side’s case, another had reportedly acknowledged that cannabis meets the Schedule III criteria, and the opposition’s strongest agency scientist had exposed the legal question likely to shape what… Keep Reading

July 10, 2026 in Culture

Prohibitionists Just Argued Themselves Into a Corner: To Stop Weed Reform, They Told a Court How Much Money They’d Lose

For a year, the loudest opponents of rescheduling have called reform a corporate payday. In a July 2 filing defending rescheduling, the Justice Department told a federal court the money is on the other side: the two groups trying to freeze the policy are guarding a commercial interest the drug laws were never written to… Keep Reading

July 1, 2026 in Culture

The DEA Blocked the Cameras at This Cannabis Hearing. Here’s What They Didn’t Want You to See.

The DEA invited only opponents to its rescheduling hearing, turned reform supporters away and refused to livestream it. Then the government’s own witnesses stood up and made the case that cannabis has real medical value and is safer than substances sold at every gas station. Here is what has been happening inside a room the… Keep Reading

April 27, 2026 in Culture

Does Rescheduling Help Home Growers? Even Cannabis Lawyers Are Split

The Trump administration’s rescheduling order moved FDA-approved marijuana drug products and certain state-regulated medical marijuana products from Schedule I to Schedule III. But for Americans who grow their own at home, the most basic question, did anything actually change for me?, depends entirely on which cannabis attorney you ask. We asked four. They disagree. On… Keep Reading

April 18, 2026 in Culture

Kratom Crackdown Signals New Drug Policy Shift

As federal cannabis rescheduling looms on the horizon and more states across the country begin rolling out regulations for legal psychedelic therapy, health officials have increasingly been targeting a centuries-old psychoactive plant from Southeast Asia with newly introduced measures of prohibition. Kratom is a leafy green botanical native to Southeast Asia that acts on the… Keep Reading

April 3, 2026 in Culture

Trump Fired Pam Bondi. What Changes For Marijuana Rescheduling?

Trump just pushed out the attorney general he ordered to expedite marijuana rescheduling and replaced her, for now, with former personal lawyer Todd Blanche. Industry sources say the Schedule III push is still moving, but for cannabis readers the bigger question remains the same: even if it happens, what exactly does rescheduling solve? Pam Bondi… Keep Reading

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